Students will return to school in August in South Tama County. | Pixabay
Students will return to school in August in South Tama County. | Pixabay
South Tama County has announced that it is going forward with plans for the return to school in August.
The decision was made when the South Tama County School Board voted to begin the fall semester using an A/B hybrid model in a recent session.
Superintendent Jared Smith displayed conclusions from a parent survey. He also included the Iowa Department of Education plans regarding how to initiate partial in-person learning. Moreover, the board discussed how parents and teachers would comply with a recent announcement issued by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The survey revealed that a notable number of parents would choose to keep their child home and utilize the online learning program if the school reopened full time.
"Of the 587 responses, 46% said they would choose to keep their child home under a full-time return plan. A much smaller number answered that they would choose to keep their child home if the school used a half-time return plan instead," the Tama-Toledo News Chronicle reported on Aug. 4.
Around 28% of the parents who participated in the survey indicated that they would prefer to keep their children home if the school reopened with a half-time return program.
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